Jet-l ; romanized Japanese on line ; computer related
Nihongo Discussion Group
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 18:21:57 -1000
From: Laura <kim...@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Jet-L
X-Sender: kimotol@uhunix3
Message-id: <Pine.SV4.3.91.960130...@uhunix3.utcc.utk.edu>
Someone asked about interview for JET participants. Well, believe it or
not there is a list just for JET participants. I'm sure they'll be able
to answer all questions.
subscription address: list...@listserv.arizona.edu
subscription command: subscribe JET-L yourfirstname yourlastname
posting address: JE...@listserv.arizona.edu
I think you know what to do with these. The subscription command goes in
the body of a message to the subscription address. Nothing goes on the
subject line. Put your real name instead of yourfirstname yourlastname.
Then, after you're subscribed, post a message to the posting address!
Hope this helps *a lot* of JET applicants...
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Laura Kimoto University of Hawaii at Hilo kim...@hawaii.edu
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 09:17:16 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe Simpson <Joe_S...@npg.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: JET program interview
In-reply-to: <01I0MTNAT...@MSdisk.WUstl.EDU>
Message-id: <1996013115...@petsun14.wustl.edu>
> I have a friend who has been invited to attend an interview as a
> phase of the JET Programme (he passed the first cut).
> Anyhow, he was wondering if I knew anyone that had been on this
> programme. If so, what to expect at an interview. I personally
> don't know, so I thought I'd ask the list on his behalf.
> I think he' s just interested in the interview methods. ie is it a
> traditional "job" interview, is there a test involved, etc...
I interviewed for JET in 1992 (and was accepted & had a great time in Japan).
The interview is short (~15 minutes) and quite simple, not high-pressure at
all. There should be about 4 interviewers, probably 2 Japanese and 2 natives
of your own country. There's no test, although if you speak Japanese at all
they will ask you a couple of questions in it to get an idea of your level--
but remember that Japanese ability is not a requirement or even a plus for
JET! (In your actual teaching, it could even be a minus as you take shortcuts
by translating for students who should be puzzling the English out for
themselves!!)
Bottom line, don't worry.
Joe Simpson
sim...@npg.wustl.edu
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 10:44:57 -0700 (MST)
From: Kaori Kabata <kka...@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
Subject: Romanized Japanese Literature on line
X-Sender: kka...@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca
Message-id: <Pine.A32.3.91.960131...@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca>
Hi. I am working on Japanese particles for my dissertation research, and
in order to get some Japanese data, I am looking for a Japanese literature
or articles available on line. I am aware of newspaper articles on web,
but they are either in Japanese or translated into English as far as I
understand. I wonder if anybody knows a Romanized version of Japanese
novels or articles available on line (CD ROM, or internet, www...).
Thanks in advance,
Kaori Kabata
Department of Linguistics
University of Alberta
Canada
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Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:59:37 -0500
From: mu...@zach.wustl.edu (Hiro Mukai)
Subject: Computers in Japan and a magazine about "Computing Japan" in English
Message-id: <960130215...@zach.wustl.edu>
> Hi, my name is Brad, and I just recently accepted a job to teach
> conversational English for a private company, AEON, in Toyama,
> Japan.
> I have heard that Japanese power supply requirements are
> different than ours.
Yes, the household electricity is supplied at100 volts in Japan, while in
the US it is at 110 to 120 volts. Moreover the frequency is 50 Hetrz in the
eastern half (e.g. Yokohama, Tokyo) and 60 Hertz in the western half (e.g.
Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka), while in the US it is 50 Hertz everywhere.
But if you buy a laptop, the frequency does not matter at all and even the
voltage does not matter, because most of them are ready for the world
market and can take 100 through 200 volts; but you do need to check.
> I have heard that buying a PC in Japan is more expensive, and the
> keyboard/software would be in Japanese.
I am interested in the Dell Latitude LX 4100T, which comes with a100MHz
Intel DX4, 10.4"active matrix color display, 8MB RAM, 128KB L2 cache, 540MB
HD, etc. The advertized price is $2,199 in the US. According to the latest
Dell ad in "Computing Japan", the same model is advertized for 259,500
yen. So it is slightly more expensive. Perhaps this is not a fair
comparison, because the LX4100T is a rather good deal in the US market.
Of course the Japanese model comes with the Japanese Windows 95, the
Japanese keyboard, and a Japanese warrantee. The Japanese Windows 95 is
supposed to act like the US Windows 95 and it should run all the programs
that the US Windows 95 can run, but the interface is in Japanese.
The Japanese keyboard has English alphabets marked on the keys as well as
kanas, so that won't cause any problem except possibly a few, if any,
special characters. I am positive you can run the US Windows 95. Indeed the
December issue of "Computing Japan" carries a 2-page article on how to run
both the US and Japanese versons of WIN95 on one machine. It is somewhat a
clumsy way of running them serially, not simultaneously of course, but it
gives a simple documented method.
By the way, "Computing Japan" is, I believe, the only magazine in English
that covers computing trends, technology, and resources in Japan. One year
subscription costs $45.95 in the US for 10 issues. I have no finacial stake
in this magazine. Their web site is at http://www.gol.com/cj.
Hiro Mukai
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 12:19:44 +0000
From: Tim Randell <bust...@vaxa.livjm.ac.uk>
Subject: re: news reader freeware/shareware?
Sender: bust...@vaxa.livjm.ac.uk
Message-id: <01I0NRPGY...@vax.livjm.ac.uk>
<I have several news reader softwares, but none of them seems to be
<able to handle Japanese properly. Does any of you know a mirror site
I recently came acros a wonderful little utility that enables any
English windows application to display Japanese including Netscape
and probably newsreaders although I haven't tried it. It is called
MVIEW and it is freely available in the file ss_mview.zip. This file
should contain the all important JIS.16 font file along with other
font files to enable the reader of Korean and Chinese as well. The
only problem I have come across is that it has trouble displaying
roman letters that are encoded using the Japanese system (SJIS, EUC,
etc...) The best thing about it is if you only need Japanese it
uses just 300k of disk space you don't need separate copies of the
font for each application that uses it e.g. NJSTAR.
MVIEW gets the big thumbs up from me.
Do a search using Archie to find your nearest site or FTP to
ftp.funet.fi/pub/culture/japan/mirrors/monash
Tim Randell
Flat 2, 2, Twyford Street, Liverpool L60AH. England
Tel/Fax: 0151 287 2544
Email: English only: BUST...@livjm.ac.uk
English and Japanese: PXQ0...@niftyserve.or.jp
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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:06:24 -0500
From: W_D...@ACAD.FANDM.EDU (Wendy Baker Davis)
Subject: Re: Teaching verbs ; teaching English ; Kintaro ; etc.
Message-id: <v01530504ad356ba5e619@[155.68.52.122]>
Original Message:
Hi! Can anyone give me the details of a software program called Easykana, for
students to use to learn hiragana and katakana? Thanks.
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Michelle,
EasyKana is available from:
The HyperGlot software Co., Inc
PO Box 10746
Knoxville, TN 37939-0746
615-588-6569
I have used it and find it a bit complex and not very logical.
I prefer some freeware I just discovered on the WWW at Purdue:
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/fll/JapanProj/Kana.html
Hiragana and Katakana for the Mac - doesn't require the Japanese Language Kit
Good Luck
Wendy
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Wendy Baker Davis
Coordinator of the Language Resource Center
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
FAX (717) 399-4446
W_D...@FandM.Edu
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"On ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est
invisible pour les yeux."
Le Petit Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupery)
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Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 02:32:24 +0100
From: po...@Worldnet.fr (F. de la Guardia)
Subject: Re: news reader freeware/shareware?
Message-id: <v01530500ad35c1d6cbe4@[194.2.128.111]>
Masumi,
I use Newswatcher 2.11 with the japanese patch and it works quite
well. You can find it on most info-mac mirror sites such as:
ftp://ftp.iij.ad.jp/pub/info-mac/comm/tcp/
You can also try the Guide to Japanese Computing:
http://www.uwtc.washington.edu/Computing/Japanese/JapaneseResources.html
>I have several news reader softwares, but none of them seems to be
>able to handle Japanese properly. Does any of you know a mirror site
>or any FTP site contains Japanese news reader freeware/shareware?
>Please share the information either posting here or replying to me
>directly at a...@zoom.com. It is very frustrating to have access to
>fj USENET groups, and yet I could not read them.
Paco.
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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:39:16 -0800 (PST)
From: MICHAEL_DI_MAT...@autodesk.com
Subject: Hello.
Message-id: <9600298229....@smtpcc.autodesk.com>
My name is Michael. I am looking for others who want to
practice their Japanese through correspondence in Romaji.
I am half Japanese, but my mother did not want me to learn
my native language, so I never got the chance to learn. I
am no 36 years old and have plans to some day locate lost
family in Japan, but first I need to get to know the
language and culture a little better.
I welcome all that would like to correspond.
Mike Di Matteo
p.o. box 4252
San Rafael. ca. 94913-4252
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